Mormon MAGA Nation

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dr. Benjamin E. Park is a historian who has become a national voice on issues related to religion and politics, particularly as they relate to the Church of Latter Day Saints. His work has appeared at the Washington Post, Newsweek, Houston Chronicle, Religion & Politics, Talking Points Memo, Religion Dispatches, Dallas Morning News, Salt Lake Tribune, Religion News Service, and Patheos. He speaks to Brad about the hidden histories of Christian nationalism and triumphalism in the LDS Church and how they are manifest in the politics of current Utah senator Mike Lee. This history is contrasted to the more moderate wing of Mormon politics as represented by Mitt Romney--the other senator from Utah--and his dad, George, before him. Using Lee and Romney as a means to understanding LDS politics illuminates how and why so many members of the LDS church have become part of MAGA Nation. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.4	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:52.1	I'm Brad O'Nishi, our shows host and a partnership with the CapCenter at UCSB.
0:56.8	I have a special guest today who has stuck with me through some weird technical difficulties
1:01.1	that are mystifying and the universe is throwing all kinds of curveballs, but we're going to make
1:05.9	this crossover happen because we need to do it, Twitter demanded it, and we're not going to let it go.
1:11.5	So I'm joined today by Dr. Benjamin Park, who is assistant professor of history at Sam Huston
1:17.2	State University. Dr. Park is a national voice surrounding issues concerning American
1:22.5	religion and politics has written everywhere from the Washington Post, Newsweek, Houston Chronicle,
1:28.2	Religion and Politics, Talking Points Memo, and many, many others. He is currently the co-editor
1:33.6	of the Mormon Studies Review and the author of two books, Kingdom of Navu, The Rise and Fall
1:38.9	of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier, which appeared recently from W. W. Norton and
1:44.1	Liveright. And his first book, American Nationalism's Imagining Union in an Age of Revolutions,
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